Sunday, August 28, 2011

Students Rebuild's Crane Art Installation for Japan

I recently received an e-mail announcement from Students Rebuild, a non-profit organization that was collecting paper cranes for rebuilding efforts in the tsunami-affected part of Japan back in March. I had sent them over 1,400 cranes made by people at the camp, the school and the senior residency, all of where I teach (read this post for more details).

Back when they were asking people to donate cranes to match their money donation from Bezos Family Foundation, they said that their intention was to make the paper cranes into an art installation. Now with a help from an artist named Vik Muniz along with some volunteers, they have turned the cranes into a beautiful photographed piece. It's exciting to know that those cranes made by us are included in this big piece of art. They made the photograph into posters, and they are now for sale on Students' Rebuild website. The proceed will go to aid long term recovery and reconstruction. For more details about this project, read this article on the New York Times.